“If your dog got sick, and marijuana could help him, you’d have it in his food bowl tonight — not tomorrow — tonight.” That statement — or a slight variation thereof — was made dozens of times by John Morgan while he campaigned for medical marijuana over the last four years. John is rarely wrong when […]

CLOSEx Embed x Share Iowans overwhelmingly support legalizing marijuana for medical purposes, but they don’t support allowing recreational uses, a new Iowa Poll shows. Wochit Buy Photo Illustration depicting medical marijuana.(Photo: Mark Marturello/The Register)Buy Photo Republicans introduced new medical cannabis legislation Tuesday, with a bill in the Senate that is wide-ranging and another in the […]

By Christine Vestal, The Washington Post NEW YORK – After a 12-year battle with debilitating abdominal conditions that forced her to stop working, marijuana has helped Lynn Sabulski feel well enough to look for a job. Sabulski is among nearly 14,000 patients in New York state who are certified to use medical marijuana for one […]

Americans seem to have a persistent notion of what marijuana policies look like around the world. The vision sold by Hollywood and globe-trotting backpackers is of people free to get high by the canals of liberal Amsterdam, or on the beaches of laid-back Jamaica, while anyone caught with a joint in Phuket risks landing in […]

EASTHAMPTON — With the advent of legal recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, what’s the best way for a small city to respond? Marijuana and local zoning will be the topic of a March 7 Planning Board discussion, said Planning Director Jessica Allan. No decisions will be made, but that the public is invited to attend, ask questions, […]

Fresno City Councilman Garry Bredefeld says that recreational marijuana shops have no place in the city, even after California voters approved Proposition 64 last fall. That’s why Bredefeld will propose a ban on recreational pot businesses within the city limits, following in the footsteps of prohibitions by the city of Clovis and by Fresno County. […]

Fresno City Councilman Garry Bredefeld says that recreational marijuana shops have no place in the city, even after California voters approved Proposition 64 last fall. That’s why Bredefeld will propose a ban on recreational pot businesses within the city limits, following in the footsteps of prohibitions by the city of Clovis and by Fresno County. […]

Fueling speculation that the Trump administration will try to block California and other states from allowing recreational marijuana use, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told state attorneys general Tuesday he was concerned about the rush toward legalization. “I am dubious about marijuana,” he said in a speech at the winter meeting of the National Association of […]

Fueling speculation that the Trump administration will try to block California and other states from allowing recreational marijuana use, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told state attorneys general Tuesday he was concerned about the rush toward legalization. “I am dubious about marijuana,” he said in a speech at the winter meeting of the National Association of […]